The White House Can’t Stop the Workforce From Diversifying

Here are some jobs statistics you won’t hear President Donald Trump talking about: According to the latest numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment among non-Hispanic White men — surely the demographic most favored by the current administration — has fallen by 1.8 million since the president began his second term in January 2025. Employment among those of two or more races, which the BLS doesn’t break out by gender in its monthly jobs data, is up by 2.4 million.

There are solid nonpolitical reasons to be wary of these statistics, which are artifacts of the BLS practice of adjusting its population estimates and the employment numbers derived from them once a year without revising earlier estimates. Users of jobs data from the monthly Current Population Survey are meant to focus on percentages, not levels, and at 3.6% in March the unemployment rate for non-Hispanic White men was lower than for most other demographic groups and slightly lower than when Trump took office. There is no employment crisis among men like me.